Plasma Window - Masters of Impressionism - Art DVD (Cezanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and more.)

From the studio that created the best selling “Plasmaquarium” Aquarium DVD and “Plasmavironments” Fireplace DVD.

Turn any TV into a virtual work of art with the Plasma Window “Art Plasma II - Masters of Impressionism” DVD.

The “Masters of Impressionism” DVD features works from several of the world’s finest Impressionist masters.

Enjoy the paintings of Cezanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissaro, Renoir, Seurat, Sisley, Van Gogh and more as they alternate on your TV screen.

Select from a Classical music soundtrack featuring Bach and Chopin or a soothing Relaxation soundtrack. The DVD is mastered in Dolby Digital Surround sound for the complete Home Theater experience.

Perfect for entertaining and relaxing, turn any room into a virtual art gallery. Each painting displays for two minutes before cycling to the next painting. The user can turn on or off informative subtitles which display the name of each work, the artist and year of creation. The DVD will loop indefinitely until the user presses stop.

The “Art Plasma II - Masters of Impressionism” DVD is a must have for any art enthusiast. Simple, easy to use menus will have you displaying the world’s most famous works of art in seconds.

The DVD is optimized for widescreen displays. Some works may appear with black bars on either side to preserve the original aspect ratio of each artist’s work.

It’s the ultimate design item for today’s modern home, and the perfect way to turn your high-end display into a rotating fine art gallery.
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Customer Review: From the co-producer of the Masters of Impressionism DVD
Yes, I am a producer of this fabulous project and also an owner of the DVD. I use the product frequently in my personal life, to entertain and relax, and felt the need to clear up any questions about this DVD. The “Masters of Impressionism” DVD is designed to fill that blank screen in the center of your living room with beautiful artwork from the world’s most renowned Impressionist artists. It also features the classical works of Bach and Chopin to set the aural mood for each piece. Each painting is transfered to the DVD from a high resolution scan which reproduces the artist’s work, in stunning fashion, on any widescreen TV. Plasma Window has been a pioneer in the art of using the television set as a virtual canvas to display beautiful paintings. So much so, that Plasma Window has been featured in dozens of the nation’s foremost publications and the “Masters of Impressionism” DVD was just featured as one of HGTV’s hottest new products on their hit show “I Want That!”. Some potential buyers may not understand the concept of using a standard movie length DVD as a virtual art screensaver for your TV. This DVD is not a documentary on Impressionist art, the period, or the artists. It is simply a unique product that lets you display the world’s finest art on your TV with a classical music soundtrack. Nothing more, nothing less. Enjoy the art! -Chris Gordon
Customer Review: Not Worth The Money
It has been a few years since I last wrote any product review on Amazon, but this product has compelled me to write a negative review. First, if you expect an abundance of great modernist paintings that would fully exploit the HD grandness that is PDP or LCD TV, FORGET IT. There is ONLY 30 shots. Next, utilizing a DVD with 4.7gb worth of storage for 30 photos and respective music, which comes to 30 songs, WITHOUT any manual function that you can control the photo/song setup is pretty devasting for a product of this price (currently at twenty five USD). Even DVD movies costing this much has far more entertaining functions such as director’s cuts etc. Where was all that money invested into? Getting the rights to store those arts in to a DVD? And without any manual control possible for the user, all possibly using far less space available on a DVD. Kinda maks you wonder if this money was better spent elsewhere. All in all, not worth the money I paid. Better leave my LCD TV blank, until a better solution to use that space. May be photos of your family burned on a DVD may be a better choice that this.
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Customer Review: Teacher’s friend
I use this DVD to introduce Vincent Van Gogh to my elementary students. This beautiful film holds their interest for a long period of time. An almost impossible task, as any teacher will tell you! This is a children’s drama, not a boring documentary. As such, I would classify it as historical fiction. Some of the film’s events are based on fact and some are fabricated. At any rate, the acting and cinematography are top notch. I only wish there were other dramatic films about artists by the same producer and of the same caliber. It also comes in VHS.
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The best film about Vincent Van Gogh is not one of the many biopics of the painter, but this stirring, ardent documentary. Forgoing a conventional biography’s and-then-he-cut-his-ear-off approach, the gifted Dutch-Australian director Paul Cox opts for pure evocation: he trails his camera through the places where Van Gogh walked, as though trying to dream his way into the artist’s mindset. Meanwhile, the beautiful voice of John Hurt reads from Vincent’s amazingly searching letters to his brother, Theo. (Hurt’s voice probably deserved an Oscar for this vocal-cord performance alone.) Van Gogh’s journey as struggling artist and tormented man of soul is thus made strangely direct–it will not only send you to see Vincent’s paintings but to locate a copy of his collected letters as well. Many film directors have grappled with this subject: Vincente Minnelli with Lust for Life, Robert Altman with Vincent & Theo, Maurice Pialat with Van Gogh. But the perpetually underappreciated Cox (Innocence) has trumped them with simplicity and sheer intensity of feeling. –Robert Horton
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Customer Review: Forgettable
I am an Art History teacher and an avid admirer of Vincent Van Gogh. This pseudo-documentary is visually uninteresting and seems more home-made than professional. The actor reading the Van Gogh letters has an irritating voice and a monotonal delivery. The score is un-musical and aimless. I am sorry, but I do not recommend this video to anyone for any reason.
Customer Review: Vincent
Documentarian Cox’s deceptively simple approach to penetrating the enigma of Vincent Van Gogh scores a direct hit. British actor Hurt’s weathered but still rich voice expertly conveys the artist’s building anguish without our needing facial expressions to pay it off. And Cox’s wildly imaginative mix of imagery which accompanies Hurt’s recitations help elevate this piece well above the standard run of PBS-type documentary work. “Vincent” is an absolute must for all us art-lovers.
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